Merz faces a deepening crisis as electoral defeats, falling approval and growing CDU dissent threaten Germany’s center-right ...

Germany’s warning is therefore larger than one election or one chancellor. Economic recovery and political confidence are not ...

Michael reports on two remarkable German state election results in which neither of the two governing parties, the CDU Conservatives or the SPD Social Democrats, came out on top, leaving Conservative ...

Die Linke candidate, a lawyer affected by her experiences as the child of political migrants from Turkey, poised to head Berlin coalition government ...

Far-right and far-left parties are celebrating success after success, leaving moderate politicians in the dust and worrying ...

Following the far-left Die Linke’s electoral victory in Berlin, Jewish leaders are calling on Germany’s center-left parties ...

Locked out of talks with minister Katherina Reiche, Germany's wind power lobby turns to MPs, betting a slim 12-seat majority ...

But it was a landslide win for the AfD, whose Saxony-Anhalt branch is classified as right-wing extremist by Germany's ...

Germans may only be granted early retirement if their job requires manual labour under tough reforms. Friedrich Merz's centrist coalition is planning to change a rule which allows Germans to retire ...

The motion was jointly submitted by representatives of the right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and AfD, together with ...

The most consequential example was the 2024 U.S. election. Polls showed that there were two issues that pushed Donald Trump to victory: the out-of-control inflation and unemployment, and the violent ...

German economic think tanks urged Chancellor Friedrich Merz's coalition on Thursday to stay the course on policy reforms after heavy losses in regional elections fuelled speculation the measures could ...